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- 1.) Turning Dog.
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- The matchstick dog is shown facing west.
- The problem is to make him face East.
- You can do this easily by moving three matches,
- but can you do it by changing the position of only
- two matches? (The dog must keep his tail upturned.)
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- 2.) Five to Four.
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- Lay out 16 matches to form five squares of equal size.
- The challenge is to move only two matches and make four squares,
- all of the same size. All matches are used in the solution,
- and no loose ends left.
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- 3.) General Information Quickies.
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- Here's a quick trivia test to help exercise your gray cells.
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- A.) In what way are a cucumber and an avocado opposites?
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- B.) What is the largest city in the world that is not built near on a river or
- by the sea?
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- C.) In what way does Parker Brothers, the game company outdo the United
- States Treasury?
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- D.) What do the steps on the Eiffel Tower have in common with the French
- Revolution?
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- H.) Gateway Arch in St. Louis is 630 feet high. How wide is it?
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- I.) How high will you have to count before you use the letter "a" in spelling
- the English name of a number?
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- 4.) Mail Mix.
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- A secretary typed eight letters to eight different people, and then addressed
- the eight envelopes. Unfortunately, the letters got all mixed up. If she puts
- letters in envelopes at random, what is the probability that exactly seven
- letters will go into the right envelopes?
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- 5.) Disco.
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- The next Prince album, we are told, will be 12 inches in diameter, with
- an outer lip half an inch wide. The diameter of the unused centre of the album,
- carrying the label, will be three inches. Grooves cut into the record will
- average 100 to the inch.
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- Q1: Approximately how many groves will there be on each side of the
- record?
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- Q2: How far will a phonograph stylus travel when one side of the record is
- playing?
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- 6.) Cards.
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- Picture three playing cards laid out side by side. A ten is just to the right
- of a five. A ten is just to the left of a ten. There is a club just to the
- left of a spade, and a club just to the right of a club. What are the three
- cards?
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- 7.) To Sum Up.
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- Use the same arrangement of three cards. All three are spot cards. From the
- following clues, what is the value of each?
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- 1. The total value of cards 1 & 2 is 15
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- 2. The total value of cards 2 & 3 is 17
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- 3. No card is a seven.
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- 4. No card has a value higher than nine.
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- 8.) Formerly known as.
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- Times change, and so do places . On the numbered list below, are former names
- of some countries and cities around the world and lettered, the new, improved,
- and much preferred names. your job:
- match them up.
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- 1. Abyssinia A. Bangladesh
- 2. Belgian Congo B. Belize
- 3. British Honduras C. Ethiopia
- 4. Ceylon D. Ghana
- 5. East Pakistan E. Ho Chi Minh City
- 6. Gold Coast F. Iran
- 7. Hot Springs G. Istanbul
- 8. Mauch Chunk H. Jim Thorpe
- 9. Northern Rhodesia I. Leningrad
- 10. Persia J. Namibia
- 11. Saigon K. Sri Lanka
- 12. St Petersburg L. Thailand
- 13. Siam M. Truth or Consequences
- 14. South west Africa N. Volgograd
- 15. Stalingrad O. Zaire
- 16. Constantinople P. Zambia
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- 9.) Drink up.
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- You have two bottles of beer, a premium brand an economy brand.
- The good one cost $2 more than the cheap one. You spent $2.20
- for both. How much did the economy brand cost?
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- 10.) Take Five.
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- You have five coins and the challenge is to arrange them so that
- each coin touches the other four. It's easy to place four coins in
- mutual contact. But can you do it with five?
- See Coins1.iff or Coins1.gif
- 11.) Sorry Bud.
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- What is the maximum amount of money you can be carrying in U.S. coins
- without being able to give someone exact change for a nickel, a dime,
- a quarter, a 50-cent piece, or a dollar?
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- 12.) Take TEN
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- Take ten coins in a row. You may pick up any coin, jump over two adjacent
- coins, and place it on the next coin. The challenge is to make five such moves
- and leave five stacks of two coins each. You may jump over single coins or
- two-coin stacks.
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- See Coins.iff or Coins.gif
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- 13.) Lost In America.
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- You are driving along a dark country road and you pass through Boondock.
- The lights are on at the Boondock tavern but you decide not to stop.
- About 20 minutes later, you reach an intersection where five roads meet at one
- spot. Unfortunately, the road sign has been knocked over and damaged, so much
- so that you can't tell how it originally pointed. You can identify the five
- arrows pointing to Boondock, Crockville, Hicksburg, Resume Speed, and
- Kalamazoo. You are alone at the crossroads; there's no one to ask. How
- do you find out which of the roads leads to Kalamazoo, your destination.
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